On February 22nd, 2018, we observed the original three Boxelder Maple and added a fourth Boxelder Maple labeled boxelder-4, noted below. The weather conditions were 79° Fahrenheit, 47% humidity, clear skies, and dry to medium soil moisture in some areas along the R.U. Bike Path. It has been mid to upper 70s, which has led to two of the Boxelder's soil base becoming dry in the past four days. Because of this, our group has not reported any signs of breaking leaves buds or open flowers for any Boxelder simply due to the abnormal hotter temperatures in February. In the past, Februaries would on average be 30’s to 40’s and sometimes as low as 20’s, but with our group best guess, climate change could be affecting these abnormal hotter temperatures this February of 2018. (Post by D. Pitts)
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On February 17th, 2018, Devin monitored the team’s three boxelder (Acer negundo) trees on the Radford Bike Path site. It was slightly chilly (47°F), with clouds and a light sprinkle, which followed a rainy, warm week. There was no change in our three boxelder tree buds, except growth in the trees' branches. (Post by Z. Krajcirovic) On February 8th, 2018 we hiked down to a bike pathway with forested edge habitat that runs next to the New River in Radford, Virginia. It was a cool, breezy day (42°F) with and our team chose 3 different individual Boxelder maple trees to study weekly. All three of the trees are in shaded, moist areas. We attached a metal identification tag labeled with a unique name (e.g. Boxelder-1) and used pink flagging for easy finding each week. Across all three tress, we found that they had no breaking leaf buds, leaves, open flowers, or fruits. We found that all had flower buds; however, the number of flower buds varied among trees with boxelder-1 having the most. (Post by M. Beckner) |
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